The scientists marched over a 2-km stretch in South Mumbai protesting the shift towards ‘pseudo-scientific ideas’. (Express photo) The scientists marched over a 2-km stretch in South Mumbai protesting the shift towards ‘pseudo-scientific ideas’. Even as lakhs of Maratha community members marched to Azad Maidan on Wednesday, about 200 scientists marched over a 2-km stretch in South Mumbai protesting budgetary cuts in scientific research and the shift towards “pseudo-scientific ideas”. On Wednesday, following months of e-mail exchanges amongst top researchers, over 200 scientists joined ‘March for Science’ protest rally in Mumbai, along with scientists in 29 other cities in India to draw the Centre’s attention towards poor budgetary allocation for research. The rally was catalysed by Breakthrough Science Society, in Kolkata, that started writing e-mails to the scientific community after the April rally in US.

Source: Indian Express August 09, 2017 20:03 UTC